BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraq has finalized a deal with a consortium led by Royal Dutch Shell to develop one of Iraq’s mammoth oil fields in the south.
Shell and partner Malaysia’s state-run Petronas won the right to develop the 12.5 billion barrel field last month during Iraq’s second postwar bidding round.
The companies will be paid $1.39 per barrel produced. They plan to raise production at the Majnoon field from the current 45,900 barrels per day to 1.8 million barrels per day over 10 years.
The 20-year deal was inked Sunday during a ceremony at Iraq’s Oil Ministry in Baghdad.
The deal is one of seven agreements awarded in a December round that offered 15 oil fields up for bid. The other deals are expected to be finalized this month.
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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